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When we consider great painters of the past, the study of art and the study of illusion cannot always be separated. By illusion
When we consider great painters of the past, the study of art and the study of illusion cannot always be separated. By illusion
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2013-01-28
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When we consider great painters of the past, the study of art and the study of illusion cannot always be separated. By illusion I mean those contrivances of color, line, shape, and so forth that lead us to see marks on a flat surface as depicting three-dimensional objects in space. I must emphasize that I am not making a plea, disguised or otherwise, for the exercise of illusionist tricks in painting today, although I am, in fact, rather critical of certain theories of non-representational art. But to argue over these theories would be to miss the point. That the discoveries and effects of representation that were the pride of earlier artists have become trivial today I would not deny for a moment. Yet I believe that we are in real danger of losing contact with past masters if we accept the fashionable doctrine that such matters never had anything to do with art. The very reason why the representation of nature can now be considered something commonplace should be of the greatest interest to art historians. Never before has there been an age when the visual image was so cheap in every sense of the word. We are surrounded and assailed by posters and advertisements, comics and magazine illustrations. We see aspects of reality represented on television, postage stamps, and food packages.
Painting is taught in school and practiced as a pastime, and many modest amateurs have mastered tricks that would have looked like sheet magic to the fourteenth-century painter Giotto. Even the crude colored renderings on a cereal box might have made Giotto’ s contemporaries gasp. Perhaps there are people who conclude from this that the cereal box is superior to a Giotto; I do not. But I think that the victory and vulgarization of representational skills create a problem for both art historians and critics.
In this connection it is instructive to remember the Greek saying that to marvel is the beginning of knowledge and if we cease to marvel we may be in danger of ceasing to know. I believe we must restore our sense of wonder at the capacity to conjure up by forms, lines, shades, or colors those mysterious phantoms of visual reality we call "pictures." Even comics and advertisements rightly viewed, provide food for though. Just as the study of poetry remains incomplete without an awareness of the language of prose, so, I believe, the study of art will be increasingly supplemented by inquiry into the "linguistics" of the visual image. The way the language of art refers to the visible world is both so obvious and so mysterious that it is still largely unknown except to artist who use it as we use all language—without needing to know its grammar and semantics.
The author of the passage explicitly disagrees with which of the following statements?
选项
A、In modem society even nonartists can master techniques that great artists of the fourteenth century did not employ.
B、The ability to represent a three-dimensional object on a flat surface has nothing to do with art.
C、In modem society the victory of representational skills has created a problem for art critics.
D、The way that artists are able to represent the visible world is an area that needs a great deal more study before it can be fully understood.
答案
B
解析
从第一段可以看出,尽管作者对certain theories of non-representational持批评态度,但他并没有否认其艺术性,且下文中有关现代社会对早期艺术的否认,作者也是不赞同的,故选B。
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